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RULES: Privacy Act; implementation,
Published: 2002-12-31
The U.S. Postal Service is amending its regulations implementing the Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a.
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The amendment modifies existing regulations at 39 CFR 266.9 to exempt
system of records, USPS 050.080, Finance RecordsSuspicious
Transaction Reports, from certain provisions of the Privacy Act and
corresponding regulations.
NOTICES: Meetings; Sunshine Act,
Published: 2002-12-26
Times and Dates: 1 p.m., Monday, January 6, 2003; 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, January 7, 2003.
Place: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., in the Benjamin Franklin Room.
Status: January 61 p.m. (Closed); January 78:30 a.m. (Open). Matters to Be Considered:
Monday, January 61 p.m. (Closed)
1. Financial Performance
2.
RULES: Refunds of unused meter stamps and returned business reply mail mailpieces with postage affixed; administrative charges,
Published: 2002-12-23
This final rule revises the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) to
update the administrative charges for processing refunds for unused
meter stamps and business reply mail (BRM) pieces returned with postage
affixed. These charges have not been increased for the past 20 years,
and are updated to reflect the current hourly cost for processing the
refunds.
NOTICES: Alternative fuel vehicle acquisition requirements,
Published: 2002-12-23
By this action, the United States Postal Service is making
available to the public its annual report of compliance with the Energy
Policy Act of 1992 (EPact) alternative fuel vehicle (AFV) acquisition
requirements. The EPact specifies minimum numbers of AFVs that Federal
agencies must acquire when purchasing or leasing lightduty vehicles.
For
PROPOSED RULES: Division 6.2 infectious substances and other related changes; revisions,
Published: 2002-12-19
The Postal Service is proposing to revise the mailing
standards in Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) C023 related to the
requirements and packaging standards for mailable types of Division 6.2
infectious substances. These DMM revisions would adopt some of the
regulatory and packaging changes for infectious substances that the U.
S. Department of
NOTICES: Systems of records,
Published: 2002-12-16
The Postal Service proposes a reorganization of the current
Privacy Act systems of records, as they relate to its external
customers. The Postal Service is creating 16 new systems and deleting
22 existing systems of records. The new systems contain all records
provided by individual and business customers to the Postal Service.
The new systems
RULES: Persons with disabilities; access to Postal Service programs, activities, facilities, and electronic and information technology,
Published: 2002-12-10
The Postal Service is amending its regulations in order to
implement section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended.
Section 508 requires Federal agencies to ensure that the electronic and
information technology (EIT) they procure allows individuals with
disabilities access to EIT comparable to the access of those who are
not disabled,
PROPOSED RULES: Indemnity claims; changes,
Published: 2002-12-06
The Postal Service proposes to revise its standards concerning
indemnity claims as set forth in the Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) S010,
Indemnity Claims; and related provisions of S913, Insured Mail, and
S920, Collect on Delivery (COD) Mail. Other than the proposed changes
concerning time periods for filing claims and retention periods for
RULES: Manufacture and distribution; authorization; Correction,
Published: 2002-12-03
The Postal Service published in the Federal Register of
November 18, 2002, a final rule amending the regulations for inspecting
postage meter production facilities that are located outside the
continental United States. Inadvertently, some paragraphs of the
regulation were designated incorrectly.
NOTICES: Postage evidencing product submission procedures; Correction,
Published: 2002-12-03
The Postal Service is correcting an error in the printing of
the final product submission procedures published in the Federal
Register November 5, 2002 (Vol. 67, No. 214, pages 6742567430).
PROPOSED RULES: Manufacture and distribution; authorization,
Published: 2002-11-26
This proposed rule clarifies and strengthens requirements for
postage meter manufacturers to control what a postage meter allows the
licensed user to print.
NOTICES: Meetings; Sunshine Act,
Published: 2002-11-26
Times and Dates: 12:30 p.m., Monday, December 9, 2002; 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, December 10, 2002.
Place: Washington, DC, at U.S. Postal Service Headquarters, 475 L'Enfant Plaza, SW., in the Benjamin Franklin Room.
Status: December 912:30 p.m. (Closed); December 108:30 a.m. (Open) Matters to be Considered:
Monday, December 912:30 p.m. (Closed)
1.
PROPOSED RULES: Bound printed matter; flat-size mail co-packaging, co-sacking, and higher DDU rate minimum rate,
Published: 2002-11-19
The Postal Service is proposing revisions to the Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM) that would provide new mail preparation standards for co
packaging and cosacking flatsize Bound Printed Matter. The standards
for copackaging would be optional, while the standards for cosacking
would be mandatory beginning on June 1, 2003. Prior to that date, the
use of
RULES: Manufacture and distribution; authorization,
Published: 2002-11-18
This final rule amends the regulations for inspecting postage
meter production facilities that are located outside the continental
United States. This rule requires the manufacturer to reimburse the
Postal Service for certain costs incurred by required inspections of
production facilities located outside the continental United States.
RULES: Manufacture and distribution; authorization,
Published: 2002-11-15
This final rule amends the regulations for checking postage
meters out of service and for handling faulty meters. The need to
ensure the security of Postal Service revenues mandates these changes.
The changes will clarify the responsibilities of the meter provider and
improve the secure handling of faulty postage meters.
NOTICES: Postage evidencing product submission procedures,
Published: 2002-11-05
The Postal Service is implementing product submission
procedures for postage meters and other postage evidencing systems.
RULES: Metal strapping materials on pallets,
Published: 2002-10-30
This final rule revises the standards for securing pallets of
mail, whether an individual pallet of mail, a pallet composed of
several individual pallets stacked to form a single unit, or a pallet
with a pallet box containing mail, by excluding the use of metal
strapping or metal banding material. These revisions will also exclude
metal buckles,
PROPOSED RULES: Combined or copalletized periodicals mailings; label standards,
Published: 2002-10-30
The Postal Service proposes revisions to the Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM) that would clarify when it is permissible to use the
designation ``NEWS'' rather than the class designation ``PER'' on Line
2 (the content line) of labels that identify sacks, trays, and pallets
containing copies of Periodicals publications or editions in combined
mailings or
NOTICES: Meetings; Sunshine Act,
Published: 2002-10-29
RULES: Standard mail and periodicals letter-size and flat-size mail; simplified address format,
Published: 2002-10-25
This final rule amends some of the standards and
identification procedures for Standard Mail and Periodicals lettersize
and flatsize mail using the simplified address format as provided in
Domestic Mail Manual (DMM) A040. The new requirements will improve the
processing and distribution of such mail and will also clarify and
expand the standards
RULES: Five percent error limit for sequenced mailings; revision,
Published: 2002-10-15
This final rule adopts a proposal to revise Domestic Mail
Manual (DMM) M050 to clarify how additional postage is assessed for
Standard Mail Enhanced Carrier Route (ECR) and Periodicals carrier
route mailings found to be out of sequence. Concurrent with the DMM
amendment, the Postal Service will implement new policies and
guidelines for assessing
PROPOSED RULES: Refunds of unused meter stamps and returned business reply mail mailpieces with postage affixed; administrative charges,
Published: 2002-10-15
The Postal Service proposes to revise the Domestic Mail Manual
(DMM) to increase the administrative charges for processing refunds for
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postage affixed. These charges have not been increased for the past 20
years, and are updated to reflect the current hourly cost
RULES: Judicial Officer; rules of practice in proceedings,
Published: 2002-10-04
The Postal Service is amending the Rules of Practice in
Proceedings Relative to the Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act to reflect
the change in primary responsibility to investigate violations of the
Program Fraud Civil Remedies Act from the Postal Inspection Service to
the Postal Service Inspector General. In addition, these rules of
practice as
NOTICES: Meetings; Sunshine Act,
Published: 2002-09-30
Times and Dates: 1 p.m., Monday, October 7, 2002; 8:30 a.m., Tuesday, October 8, 2002.
Place: Memphis, Tennessee, at the Peabody Hotel, 149 Union Avenue, in the Continental Ballroom.
Status: October 71 p.m. (Closed); October 88:30 a.m. (Open). Matter to be Considered:
Monday, October 71 p.m. (Closed)
1. Financial Performance.
2. Biohazard Detection
NOTICES: Voter registration regulations; limited exception,
Published: 2002-09-17
The Postal Service is publishing notice that it is providing a
temporary exception to postal regulations in 39 CFR 232.1, which
prescribe the conditions under which voter registration may take place
on postal property. Specifically, we are providing a limited exception
to the requirement in 39 CFR 232.1(h)(4)(viii) that confines
registration
